Texas Rangers: BANKRUPT. Team getting sold

[Mad Mark]

If this happens to five other clubs then maybe, just maybe MLB will finally vote in a proper revenue-sharing scheme.

It's not the 90s anymore. Every stadium built during the boom years not named PNC park is too flippin' big. Even if the Orioles were good, Camden Yards would not be sold out now like it was from 1992-1998. If you were building a park in Baltimore now, it would have 35-39,000 seats, not 48,000. Also, the Ballpark at Arlington never really took off as a "business destination" despite the giant office park they built just beyond the OF.

Oh, and Tom Hicks is a complete buffoon. He got suckered by Shrub-boy when buying the team...and Miss Pay Fraud and Bora$ during their "contract negotiations": that's how stupid this man is!

[twoBshorty]

If this happens to five other clubs then maybe, just maybe MLB will finally vote in a proper revenue-sharing scheme.

It's not the 90s anymore. Every stadium built during the boom years not named PNC park is too flippin' big. Even if the Orioles were good, Camden Yards would not be sold out now like it was from 1992-1998. If you were building a park in Baltimore now, it would have 35-39,000 seats, not 48,000. Also, the Ballpark at Arlington never really took off as a "business destination" despite the giant office park they built just beyond the OF.

Oh, and Tom Hicks is a complete buffoon. He got suckered by Shrub-boy when buying the team...and Miss Pay Fraud and Bora$ during their "contract negotiations": that's how stupid this man is!

What does this have to do with revenue sharing? Revenue sharing would not save Tom Hicks from a $600 million hole. It would be a tiny drop in a very big bucket. Only a few franchises are even worth more than that as a whole, stadiums included. Many other teams have a much smaller market than the Rangers and still manage to turn a profit.

This is not at all about baseball market disparity and all about Tom Hicks simply being an idiot who can't run a business. It goes well beyond the Rangers and MLB and even US borders: he's also run Liverpool FC off a financial cliff (my brother, a huge Liverpool fan, is beside himself) and is selling them and the Dallas Stars as well as the Rangers. I don't even know how you wind up in those straits in the extremely lucrative Premier League without relegation being involved. This is not a baseball structural problem, it's a Tom Hicks problem.